The strange white spot on dwarf planet Ceres has been a subject of inquiry for a long time now, but as it turns out, the enigma is actually just one of many. A new animation made from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on February 4 reveal the well-known mysterious white spot, as well as several others:

[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]

The animation doesn't really shed light on what these white spots might be, especially since it looks inverted from different angles. At certain points it looks like a depression, while at other angles it looks like a mountain:

[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]

[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]

[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]

[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]

[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]

And here's another animation from NASA, which shows all of the enigmatic white spots in further images from February 4.